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These words were translated in different countries using several translation strategies, such as copying the names with no attempt to transmit the original English meaning, transliterating even if the name lost its original meaning, replacing the name with another given name from the target language, or translating the name using native words ...
Antipolo. Rizal. Hispanicized form of the Tagalog phrase ang tipolo which means "the breadfruit ", the tree that grew abundantly in the area. Bacolod. none. Hispanicized form of bakolod, an old Hiligaynon word for "hill" in reference to the hilly area in the city that is now the barangay of Granada. Bacoor. Cavite.
Cebuano (/ s ɛ ˈ b w ɑː n oʊ / se-BWAH-noh) [2] [3] [4] is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines.It is natively, though informally, called by its generic term Bisayâ or Binisayâ ([biniːsaˈjaʔ]) (both terms are translated into English as Visayan, though this should not be confused with other Bisayan languages) [a] and sometimes referred to in English sources as ...
A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ /, tə-GAH-log; [3] [tɐˈɣaː.loɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
The Tagalog Wikipedia was launched on 1 December 2003, [citation needed] as the first Wikipedia in a language of the Philippines . As of 3 February 2011, it has more than 50,000 articles. [ 2] Bantayan, Cebu became the 10,000th article on 20 October 2007, while Pasko sa Pilipinas ( Christmas in the Philippines) became the 15,000th article on 24 ...
Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa ( Tagalog for 'National Language Month'), [ 1][ 2] simply known as Buwan ng Wika ('Language Month'), is a month-long annual observance in the Philippines held every August to promote the national language, Filipino. The Commission on the Filipino Language is the lead agency in charge of organizing events in relation to ...
An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding. Words consisting of hundreds, or even thousands of characters have been coined. Even non-agglutinative languages ...